Re: GCC and Windows 98

["Patrick Block" <panic@apexmail.com>]

Stef:

I'm running windows 98 and gcc for win32.

I'm not exactly sure what is going on here.

What I'd do is this:

make a hello program (like with Notepad) like this:

#include <stdio.h>
int main ()
{
printf ("hello!\n\nPress enter");
getchar ();
return 0;
}

after you write that, save it as hello.c
then get an MSDos prompt and go to the directory where you saved it, and
type:

gcc -luser32 -o hello.exe hello.c

This will link in the library for console applications and tell the compiler
to give the end product the name "hello.exe".

Then you'll be able to run the program from the command line or from
Explorer.

Make sure gcc has been added to your path.

Hope that helps. Feel free to email me at

mailto: panic@apexmail.com


Stef <stef@email.address> wrote in message
news: 7qovlu$j55$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk ...
> I have installed the GNU toolkit onto my PC and am unable to compile even
> the basic demo program.  The error message that is received is as follows:
>
> ################################
>
> C:\Program Files\hitachi\GNU\DEMO>make
>
> gcc -O -g -S hello.c
>
> Stack Fault at eip=107399
> eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=00000000
> edi=00000000
> ebp=00000000 esp=00166c48 cs=177 ds=16f es=16f fs=16f gs=187 ss=17f
> cr2=00006fe3
>
> Call frame traceback EIPs:
>   0x00107399
>
> make.exe: *** [hello.s] Error 1
>
> ################################
>
>
> The hello.c file is as follows:
>
>
> ################################
>
> void __main(){}
>
> void exit()
> {
>     while(1);
> }
>
> main()
> {
>     return 0;
> }
>
> ################################
>
> I am running MS Windows 98 and the version of the GCC.EXE is 2.7-97r1a.
>
> I have tried runing the command "gcc hello.c" with just the default
> settings, changing the FILES in the CONFIG.SYS file, tried different
folder
> locations (to prevent any DOS 8.3 problems) all returning the same STACK
> FAULT error.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Stef
>
>